Dressing stand and mirror.



No. 644,044. Patented Feb. 20, I900. T. M. WASSENIUS.

DRESSING STAND AND MIRROR.

(Application filed Aug. 17, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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TIIORSTEN M. WASSENIUS, OF WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.

DRESSING STAND AND MIRROR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 644,044, dated February20, 1900.

Application filed August 17, 1898. Serial No. 688,756- (No model.)

- State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in DressingStands and Mirrors, of which the following description, in connectionwith the acc'ompanyin g drawings, is a specification, like letters onthe drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a novel and simplestand and mirror for use of ladies when dressing the hair.

In this invention the mirror is supported on a vertically-adjustableself-holding staff, so that it may be adjusted vertically into anydesired position and be there held automatically, and the mirror is sosupported that it may be tipped to any required angle and be thereretained.

The particular features in which the invention herein contained consistswill be hereinafter defined and specified in the claim.

Figure l in elevation shows my improved stand and mirror with the columnpartly broken out. Fig. 2 is a partial side elevation of the upper endof the stand, staff, and mirror. Fig. 3 shows the connection attached tothe mirror, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged section showing part of the columnand the lower end of the staff.

The column A,preferably of wood and bored centrally at A from end toend, is sustained on a suitable base or foot A and at its upper end thecolumn is provided with a stand A upon which may be laid combs, brushes,and other toilet articles. The bore of the column receives a staff B,made of wood split or provided with a saw-kerf,as B, at its lower end,the said staff being shown as bored to intersect said kerf, and thusmake an opening for the reception of an expander 13*", made, preferably,as a block of wood,which may be driven into the hole so made to expandthe kerf more or less, leaving the free ends of the stafi at oppositesides of the kerf separated, to thus form a compressible spring, so thatthe lower end of the staff will hold frictionally upon the interior ofthe bore of the column and maintain the staff in any position inwhich itmay be left by the user of the stand and mirror. The staff has insertedof the staff throughout, above the bolt C, fits substantially theinterior of the bore A, so that the said staff is held firmly andwithout any tendency of wabbling. The upper end of the staff is slabbedoff, as at b, at opposite sides, and each slabbed portion receivesagainst it ears 2 of a plate 6, attached by screws through the holes 6to the back 6 of the mirror-frame 6 it containing a suitable mirror 6The ears e have openings 0 and a bolt f isinserted through the openingof one of said ears and through the reduced upper end of the staff, andthen through the other ear, and has applied to it a clamping-nut f, sothat said nut may be turned to cause the ears to hug between them theupper end of the stafi firmly, so that the mirror will be retained inany position or angle in which it may be placed by the user of themirror, and so, also, the staff B may be revolved as desired in thecolumn.

Having described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

A dressing-stand comprising a centrallybored column provided with a footor base, a staff slidably fitted in said column, and having a saw-kerfat its lower extremity, and also having a bore intersecting saidsaw-kerf at a point above the lower extremity, an expanding deviceadapted to be disposed in said bore, thereby to expand the lower end ofthe TI-IORSTEN M. WASSENIUS.

itnesses:

GEO, W. GREGORY, EMMA J. BENNETT.

